On 11/28/05, David Osolkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: An identifier isn't useful if you can't > determine what is being identified.
Er, that's not actually the case. If you can identify (/name) something you can say things about it. Indeed by saying things about it you can often determine what is being identified. e.g. I create an identifier for something: tag:pragmatron.org,2005:xyz I can then say stuff about the thing identified (Turtle syntax, omitting namespace decl.): tag:pragmatron.org,2005:xyz pet:likes "dark places" . ( i.e. whatever it is likes dark places) Already useful, SPARQL query: ?x pet:likes "dark places" . (i.e. what in the world likes dark places?) result, the statement above. But as yet you don't know much about what's being identified. Here's a bit more: tag:pragmatron.org,2005:xyz foaf:name "Eric" . tag:pragmatron.org,2005:xyz pet:species pet:Hedgehog . tag:pragmatron.org,2005:xyz pet:fedBy _:person . _person foaf:name "Danny Ayers". Cheers, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
